' 7 ' ■ ' 'I . ■ ' ' , ; ' . I'? ' . ai.'. , ' ■ ' A Newspaper With A Constructive PER COPY LA™.* teA^S STAMPA ■- ...■';-/;?7;.^./ MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, FRIDÀY, AUGUST 3, 1951 Council Of Street Merchant, Is Summoned In Session Operated Clothing The Blulf City and Shelby Coun­ 800 Delegates ty Council of Civic Clubs met Sun­ Dr. Walker To Run As Candidate Store On Avenue day in Brownlee Hall. LeMoyne Col­ Southeastern Expected For lege, and heard (the constitution Over 30 Years and by-laws of the newly formed 4-Day Session For Place On Board Of Education organization read by the secretary. ED BUFFINGTON, POINEER Mrs. Mary Louise Davis. Women Conduct More than 800 Masons are ex­ • , BY L. O. SWINGLER. EDITOR It was voted to refer the constitu­ pected to be in Memphis for the Ed Buffington founder and head tion and by-laws back to the com­ giant convention of thfi qolorful of the nationally known Buffington mittee to iron out some detoils Prince Hall Grand Lodge of the -Tailoring Company, 337 Beale Ave- ' They, will be read again at the next Memorial Rites Jurisdiction of Tennessee, which . uue. -died last Tuesday night, July meeting which is scheduled for Aug. will convene 111 the Bluff City Au­ .24’at Collins Chapel Hospital after 12. The time and place to be an­ gust 5 through 8. a week preceding • on extended illness His name had nounced later. the National Dental Association become an established trade mark Mrs. Davis said- it would require Convention which will begin Its during the almost fifty years he three readings of the constitution sessions August 13. operated clothing stores at Green­ and by-laws before the member­ Memphis, thé city of good abode, wood, Miss., and Chicago ship, betore they are legally adopt- is getting to show the warm hos­ Til for several years, Mr, Buffing­ ,ed by the organization. pitality it Is so well remembered for. ton had begun withdrawing from The Masons will begin their con­ activé service with his company as vention with a mammoth parade early ns 1949, and placed the re­ Essay Winners from Mason Tdmple, Fourth at sponsibility in the hands of two Bc-ale. beginning at 2 p.m., and the cousins, John and Gentry Roberts. line of march preceding to Clay­ His death brought to a close one On The Air born Temple, where the public of the most successful careers on Essay winners of the city wide meeting will be held 3 p. m., Sun­ the part of a self-made man who Essay Contest on "Courtesy and day. August 5. picked up the trade of tailoring Better Conduct" sponsored by the Principal speaker for the after­ without benefit of formal education. Negro Division of the Memphis noon will be Rov. W. T. Couch, Mr. Buffington knew every phase Youth Service Council will be on Grand Prelate. Clarksvillle. Tennes­ of thé clothing business,' includ'ng the air each Saturday afternoon see. Mayor Watkins Overton will selection of goods, measurements, during the month of August. bring the welcome to delegates from cutting and designing, and mer­ the city; he will be Introduced by Saturday afternoon, August 4, 4 Atty. B.L Hooks. L.H. Twigg, chandising. His salesmen worked p. m.. over Radio Station WMPS, the Delta area for years, and ex­ will mark the 7th Annual Broad­ president. Union Protective Assur­ tended as far west as Texas, and ance Co., will extend the welcome cast of Essay Winners of the Negro on behalf of Business and Profes­ Oklahoma. public, parochial and private schools -Mr. Buffington starteji his busl- sional: Rev. W. Herbert Brewster, of Memphis. Sr., will give the welcome on Ire- (Continued on page 6 At 4 o'clock Saturday, the fol­ MRS. A. L. HIGGINS half of Memphis Churches. lowing program will be presented ATLANTA. Georgia — (SNS) — The Grand Lodge will officially over WMPS: Fitting and impressive memorial open Its 81st Annual Communica­ 11 TH ANNUAL Essay ......... "Courtesy and Better services were conducted M o n- tion Monday, August 6, at 9-30 a. (Continued On Page Eight) (Continucd On Page Eight) m., at Brale Street Auditorium; Rev. FIELD DAY AT C.F. Williams Is Most Worshipful For Ed Buffington, the self-made its workmanship and quality of Grand Master of Tennessee- business man from the heart of tire goods. His customers included busi- Red Cross To Aid Of Flood Victims The complete program for the STONEVILLE Delta who establish the nationally ness, and professional people in organization’s convention follows: U ”' STONEVILLE, MIS.^ — The known Buffington- Tailoring Co-., many sections of‘ the South and ' life annual Negro Delta Field Day death last week took the final order mid West. (Continued On Page Six) was held at the Delta Branch ex­ The end came late Tuesday even­ In later years Mr. Buffington ex- periment station last Wednesday, ing, July 24 at Collins Chapel Hos­ dosmetic busi- at'"Stoneville^ Mississippi. -. pital, bringing th a close a . career panded to include No Permit To ^«^County/.agenJ;iSlionias^u,Bgrr7,' that- hail .-lts..beginningti»t^Greeii- ness. He established Butfco Toilet ^.riJnAlor.-.- of Waelringtohr'-County,. .... wood, ■MiriB ifl '1903', rortwbighi Preparations and: ■ Hair Dressing Burri Crosses ^^^^M^sraHd.kSffi«tilftUSaild.-Ne4-’-gu^sts at- -years ago.—-.*-.* -■««--a-riensskerv but-failing health did mot .permit ... »—»■»----- -Buffington Clothing Company es­ him to carry this enterprise to.any In Tennessee marked success. 'tended the affair. y“.-. ■ tablished a national,reputation for NASHVILLE — Governor Gorden .The principal speakers Were Rex Browning says the Ku Klux Klan tty--‘iiV Brown, ¡president Mlssisslpol does not have a. permit to burn ’ Light and Power Company, and Dr Deputy Sheriff At Indianola crosses in Tennessee. And he adds A. H. Fuhri, an officer of Farm the organization wouldn’t get one DR. JOSEPH EDISON WALKER for November 8. The petitionhas to . ■ Credit; Washington, D;> O. Among Miss. Fired-Extradition For if such permits were even legal.. Nationally known president­ be submitted'to tire Shelby County . .. the .hosts; for the barbecue, which Th<> governor’s statement was founder of Universal Life Insur­ Electiòii Commission, at least 130. was served at noon, were .fee Goyer Pvt. Detective Chas. Underwood made in reply to comments on re­ ance Company and the Tri-Statc days prior to the election. / .J? >4/Wholesale'/Grocery Company of ports from Atlanta quoting a Klan Bank of Memphis, last week coil-;.. The veteran Insurance and bank-, /•GreenvlHe and the Mississippi Po­ leader. He said the hooded order Three of the victims signed con­ firmed reports that lie would be d ind . executive will be the first"Ne- ■ wer and Light Company. Sunflower County authority nopes had permits to burn crosses in a candidate for membership on the grò” to run in a municipal election i /, a (The program began at 9 a. m. and for a speedy extradition of Pvt fession to the killing. The fourth number of states, including Ten­ man declared that he refused to City' Board of Education. Friends here since the-turn of the century. included tours of research faciil- Investigator Charles Underwood tn nessee. are already In the field securing put his name on the confession. His candidacy is being. openly sup- : - J" tips, of -.Stoneville, Visitors to fee wind up the "confession beating” The governor says —"My concep­ the necessary signatures_tg._ciuaU- ported by whites as well as: Negroes, Governor Fielding Wright is ex­ Experiment Station were welcomed of four Negroes. tion of the symbol of the cross is fy him for a place "on thc’ballot for pected to act favorably on Under­ but will be in opposition to one,of ..by Dr. Gray Miley, superintendent.. Sheriff George Marshall an­ for a holier purpose than that.” the municipal election scheduled the candidates on fee Overton nounced that he had fired the De­ wood’s extradition in view of his ’ ’ , “ statement condemning brutality by "Peace” Ticket which Is already : puty Sheriff for his role in forcing f ' law enforcement officers. made up. /' Dr. Bland Back confession for fee killing that did Sheriff Marshall announced that i th “I am happy to be.given the op­ not happen. .i-v Accused Listed As James he had advised Deputy Sheffield portunity to run for this bffice, Dt. ' Al!’ Negroes held In jail for the (Continued on page 4 »i s To Office From that his dismissal would become ef­ fictitious murder were released af­ 1. ■ -, . ' - I ■■"-.I* ter it-was disclosed that their sup­ fective as of August 1 after Dis­ N. Y. August 9th posed victim was alive in East St- trict Attorney Stanny Sanders at Knight And Charles Klein Indianola had ruled ouster pro­ Cab Driver Hurt Louis. Marshall had hired Under­ Dr. R. Earl Bland, prominent ceedings against Deputy Sheffield. BY GEORGE COLEMAN Memphis physician, will return co wood to help out in the case. It In Collison the Bluff City after having attend­ was subsequently . revealed ■ that Underwood was wanted in Chica­ ATLANTA, Ga. — (SNS) — ed the New York Polyclinic Medi­ Two Georgia Klansmen — one of them the executive secre­ On Bellevue cal School and Hospital, New York go for probation violation in con­ 11th Ward Civic nection with an armed robbery. tary of the Association of Georgia Klans, who Thursday denied 'Charles Bolton of 337 Vance, 30. City, since April. cab driver for the United Cab Com­ During his absence from Mem­ Mid-west authorities did not know Club Is Formed; any knowledge of the burning of a cross in a Negro neighbor- of«Underwood's where-abouts until (American red cross Red Cross has launched an appeal pany, was Injured, when his cab had phis, Dr.